{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/roads-traffic-calming-scotland-regulations-1994/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/roads-traffic-calming-scotland-regulations-1994/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2488",
  "legislation_title": "The Roads (Traffic Calming) (Scotland) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/roads-traffic-calming-scotland-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Description of traffic calming works",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 8 below—\n(a) for the purposes of section 39A of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 a roads authority may, in a road maintainable by them, construct the following traffic calming works:—\n(i) build-outs;\n(ii) chicanes;\n(iii) islands;\n(iv) overrun areas;\n(v) pinch-points;\n(vi) rumble devices;\n(vii) any combination of the foregoing; and\n(viii) any combination of the works specified in sub-paragraphs (i) to (vi) above with works which a roads authority have power to execute otherwise than by virtue of these Regulations;\n(b) for any of the purposes referred to in paragraph (2) below, traffic calming works may include, either on the works themselves or on the adjacent road, provision of—\n(i) lighting;\n(ii) paving, grass or other covering;\n(iii) pillars, bollards, planters, walls, rails or fences;\n(iv) objects or structures spanning the road concerned;\n(v) trees, shrubs or other plants whether in planters or not; and\n(vi) any combination of the foregoing.\n(2) The purposes referred to in paragraph (1)(b) above are—\n(a) promoting the safety of persons using the road concerned;\n(b) preserving or improving the environment through which the road concerned runs;\n(c) making the traffic calming works conspicuous;\n(d) enhancing the intended effect of the traffic calming works; and\n(e) any combination of the foregoing.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 39A was inserted by the Traffic Calming Act 1992, Schedule 2."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2488/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:25:38.301656+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}